Press archive 2019
Valentina Giordano awarded Beacon Bursary 2019
Generation Place: inspiring the next generation of diverse placemakers
Generation Place was one of ten projects featured in the Ove Arup Foundation’s 2019 ‘Catalyst for Change’ exhibition, which celebrated thirty years of the Foundation during March – June 2019 at the Arup London Offices. This is one of ten short essays written to accompany the exhibition. Read more →
Bartlett school of planning is to undertake a national review of housing design quality
University College London’s Bartlett School of Planning is to carry out an audit funded by the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) and the Place Alliance, a non-profit network whose supporters include the Planning Officers Society, Civic Voice, and the Local Government Information Unit. Read more →
Housing design audit to assess large developments
Built environment organisations have come together to support the UK’s first national housing design audit, which plans to examine large-scale housing developments. Read more →
The Bartlett School of Planning to review design quality of nation’s homes
One of the country’s leading planning schools is to carry out an audit of design quality in housing developments across England, it has been announced. Read more here →
Bartlett professor to lead audit of housing design quality
The first systematic audit of housing design quality since CABE was scrapped has been announced. The project, which will examine at least 100 large-scale developments across England, will feed into the work of the government’s controversial Building Better, Building Beautiful commission. Read more →
Audit to assess housing design quality across England
An audit of housing design quality will examine at least 100 large-scale developments across England to help drive the construction of better-quality residential schemes. Read more →
Organisations back UK’s first ever national housing design audit
A diverse group of organisations connected with the building industry have come together to support the UK’s first ever national housing design audit. The Place Alliance (UCL) and CPRE, with the support of the Home Builders Federation, the Urban Design Group, Civic Voice, the Academy of Urbanism, the Design Council, the UK Green Building Council, and the Institute for Highways and Transportation have joined forces to support the first ever national housing design audit. Read more →
First-ever national housing audit hopes to push design up the agenda
A national audit of new-built housing is launching this summer to examine how design quality has changed in the past decade. The independent project, which will examine at least 100 major schemes across England, will be led by Matthew Carmona, professor of planning and urban design at the Bartlett School of Planning (UCL). Read more →
First National Housing Design Audit launched by myriad of organisations
With the drive to deliver more homes across the country has come a loud call for those developments to be of a high standard of design in order to deliver high quality, liveable and sustainable environments for residents. The Place Alliance (UCL) and CPRE, with the support of many organisations have joined forces to support the first ever national housing design audit and to examine the design quality of recent developments across the country. Read more →